**Women who have families with husbands that are hurt if their wives work hard and don't have benefits of equal pay.-CH
Equal pay problems are usually confined to women with children because they have intermittent periods in the workplace-CH
"The Paycheck Fairness Act" would put employers that have wage discrimination against women is unacceptble as decrimination against race and ethnicity-CH
Current laws helps those who are denied equal pay compensatory and punitive damages-CH
1. studys show people perfer a woman's voice over a man's voice when calling a complaint department 43% to 18% (KN)
2. people rather hire women to babysit over men 91% to 4% (TS). Nay, Blaine. on Pay Equality for Women. 11/13/08 <http://www.three-peaks.net/equalpay.htm>.
1. for every dollar a man makes, a woman only makes 74 cents (KN)
2. a woman is shorted around $148 a week (TS)
3. compared to a white man's dollar, an african american women only gets 63 cents (KN)
4. a hispanic women makes 54 cents for every dollar a white man makes (TS)
5. asian women make 80 cents (KN)
6. even though the work force is made up of half women the wage gap is there (TS)
7. due to the wage gap, the average family loses $4000 a year (KN)
8. all the working families lose $200 billion anually because of the wage gap (TS)
9. womens retirment benifits are less then half of the men (TS)
10. if equal pay was in effect then more than 50% of single mothers would be out of poverty (KN)
11. a 25 year old women out of college would lose $523,000 during her working life (TS)
12. a black college educated women gets paid less than a white highschool educated man (KN)
13. women have made progress from 59 cents to 74 cents of a mans dollar over the years (TS)
14. from graduates out of college females annually earn $13,788 less than man (KN)
15. studies show that if a job has more women and people of color than men, the less the job pays (TS) ----
women 30 years after the Equal Pay Act, there still is a 17.1 pay gap between men and women (JH)
In 2004, the public sector pay gap was 10.1 for full time work pay. (KN)
The private sector was 23.1 (JH)
It will take more than 80 years to fill this pay gap between men and women. (KN)
In Norway Korita Bekkemellem, they are threatening to close down companies unless 40% of women are recruited to their boards within the next 2 years. (JH)
State-owned companies already have put 45% of women on their board. (KN)
Women suffer economically when they become mothers (JH)
IN 2004, there was a part time pay gap, where men worked full time, but women worked part time. This will take 140 years to close the gap. (KN)
People don't acknowledge that women a "second shift" at home that men don't do and they don't get payed for it. (JH)
In order to have a good economy, we need equality for men and women at work. (KN)
Ten years after graduation women are only paided 80% of their male counterparts and after 10 years the gap widens to only earning 69% of a male's pay-CH
Although wage gap has started closing, recent analysis shows that 60% of the change is due to decrease in men's real earnings, not increase in women's earnings-CH
Wage gap is largest for women of color-CH
Women with children make 10 to 15% less than women without children., but men with children don't experience a family penalty.-CH
A study was concluded that if working single mothers were paid the same as men with their same skills, their poverty rates would be cut in half. -CH ----
Equal Pay: Women Like Men, Only Cheaper
women only made 77 cents of every dollar that men made(jh)
african american made only 63 cents and latinas 52 cents of a dollar that white white men get(jh)
Because of large amount of American women taking jobs in war industries during WW2 the National War Labor Board urged employers in 1942 to make voluntarily adjustments which equalize wage or salary paid to females with the rates payed to males for comparable quality and quantity of work on same or similar operations- CH
Employers failed to follow this "voluntary" request and at wars end most women were pushed out of their new jobs to make room for returning veterans-CH
Until early 1960 newspapers published separate job listings for men and women and jobs were categorized according to gender-CH
Higher level jobs listed almost exclusively under male listings-CH
Wasn't until passage of Equal Pay Act on June 10 1963 that it became illegal to pay women lower rates for same job strictly on basis of gender-CH
This act wasn't effective till June 11 1964-CH
Demonstrable difference in seniority merit quality or quantity of work or other considerations could still merit different pay between men and women-CH
Since 1963 when Equal Pay Act was signed closing of the wage gap between men and women has been a rate of about half a penny a year-CH
In 1963 women earned 59% of wages men earned -CH
In 2005 women earned 81% of men's wages an improvement of about half a penny per dollar earned every year-CH
Brunner, Borgna. The Wage Gap. infoplease. 11/17/08 <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html>.
Unequal pay leaves women £369,000 worse off * Women working full time will be paid £369,000 less than their male counterparts over their lifetime(jh)
Men are now paid 17.1% more than women for full-time work(jh)
part-time wages is 36.6%, up from 35.8% in 2007(jh)
The disparity would be enough to pay for 31 years of childcare or 22 new cars,to pay off the average student debt 18 times over.(jh)
women in the Government Equalities Office are paid 4% more than men.(jh)
When it comes to equal pay for women, Barack is bam,bam, thank you,mam
Obama declared that "Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work." and added "I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons."(jh)
Obama's male legislative staffers earn an average of $ 54,397 while his female staffers average $ 45,152(jh)
Obama's five best-paid advisers, only one is a woman and, among his top 20, only seven are women.(jh)
Obama, John McCain's female staff average $ 55,878 while his male staff average $ 53,936.(jh)
McCain's highest-paid aides, with three of the top five and 13 of his highest-paid 20 employees.(jh)
five restaurant owners in Oregon plan to drop their prices for female customers by 23 cents(jh)
that's the number of extra days women will have to work in 2007 to catch up with men(jh)
Hillary Clinton is pushing the "Paycheck Fairness Act," a bill, would intensify anti-discrimination laws, create a negotiation skills training program for women and stop retaliation against employees who disclose their salaries(jh)
women make 77 percent of what men earn (or 23 percent less)(jh)
socialists among us may not like it, but professional football players make more than surgeonss, surgeonss make more than nursess, and nurses make more than nursing assistants(jh)
Gender discrimination may be a factor in why the jobs that pay better have a higher fraction of men, and the jobs that pay lower wages have more women(jh)
many reasons besides gender discrimination why women may choose, rather than be forced into, the lower median salary jobs9jh)
males are more apt to travel or recloate for work than women(jh)
take harder jobs, read boring sciences and take jobs in finaces(jh)
women perfer shorter and more fexibles jobs than men(jh)
According to Farrell, the median salariess of women exceeded that of men's by at least 5 percent(jh)
in some careers, up to 43 percent in 39 occupations(jh)
Some of the 39 professions include: sales engineerss, statisticianss, legislatorss, transportation workerss, automotive service technicians and mechanicss, speech-language pathologistss and library assistants(jh)
77% number is not all overt sexism, gender discrimination may still be part of the story(jh)
women with kids are less likely to be hired than women without kids(jh)
A Carnegie Mellon study found that female job applicants were less likely to be hired by male managers(jh)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that female scientists were paid less than men are(jh)
One year out of college, women who are working full-time are earning 80 percent of what men earn(jh)\
ten years after graduation, women were earning 69 percent as much as men(jh)
the 77 cents on the dollar number, this study was based on median income from all jobs(jh)
Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on equal pay
Author- President Clinton
clinton, william. "Remarks in a roundtable discussion on equal pay." ebsco host. 1999. 11/13/08 <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=21&sid=c1a8447e-ee7b-4370-8ffa-02c9872a6590%40SRCSM2&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=khh&AN=1837236>.
- **Women who have families with husbands that are hurt if their wives work hard and don't have benefits of equal pay.-CH
- Equal pay problems are usually confined to women with children because they have intermittent periods in the workplace-CH
- "The Paycheck Fairness Act" would put employers that have wage discrimination against women is unacceptble as decrimination against race and ethnicity-CH
- Current laws helps those who are denied equal pay compensatory and punitive damages-CH
**- ----
Equal pay for Women? Not till 2050Nay, Blaine. On Pay Equality for Women. 11/13/08 <http://www.three-peaks.net/equalpay.htm>.
1. studys show people perfer a woman's voice over a man's voice when calling a complaint department 43% to 18% (KN)
2. people rather hire women to babysit over men 91% to 4% (TS).
Nay, Blaine. on Pay Equality for Women. 11/13/08 <http://www.three-peaks.net/equalpay.htm>.
EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN – STILL NOT THERE. polyzine.com. 11/13/08 <http://www.polyzine.com/equalpay.html>.
2. a woman is shorted around $148 a week (TS)
3. compared to a white man's dollar, an african american women only gets 63 cents (KN)
4. a hispanic women makes 54 cents for every dollar a white man makes (TS)
5. asian women make 80 cents (KN)
6. even though the work force is made up of half women the wage gap is there (TS)
7. due to the wage gap, the average family loses $4000 a year (KN)
8. all the working families lose $200 billion anually because of the wage gap (TS)
9. womens retirment benifits are less then half of the men (TS)
10. if equal pay was in effect then more than 50% of single mothers would be out of poverty (KN)
11. a 25 year old women out of college would lose $523,000 during her working life (TS)
12. a black college educated women gets paid less than a white highschool educated man (KN)
13. women have made progress from 59 cents to 74 cents of a mans dollar over the years (TS)
14. from graduates out of college females annually earn $13,788 less than man (KN)
15. studies show that if a job has more women and people of color than men, the less the job pays (TS) ----
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/15/ED264220.DTL#
- wage gap has stalled ot slowed down according to AFL-CIO statistics (TS)
- at this rate women in california wont get equal pay till 2044 (TS)
- in last decade little progression in closing the wage gap (TS)
- by closing wage gap women will rise above poverty (TS)
- more the a third more women than men will live in poverty according to the Census Bureau (TS)
- equal pay legislation has been introduced in at least 20 states (TS) ---- ----
Chavez-Thompson, Linda. "Income Gap:Equal pay for women still a dream." San Francisco Chronicle 15 4 2003. SFGate. Heartest newspaper. 11/13/08 <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/15/ED264220.DTL#>.http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/women/equalpay/EqualPaybyOccupation.cfm
- women office and administrative support earns $71 less a week then a male (TS)
- doctos- women $688 less each week then men's earnings (TS)
- Nurses- 90% female but earn $119 less per week then the10% of men (TS)
- Professors-$233 less a week (TS)
- Elementry school teacher- $86 less a week (TS)
- Food Service Superviso- about $122 less a week (TS)
- Waitresses- $67 less a waiters weekly earnings (TS) ----
Equal Pay by Occupation . september 2004 America's union movement. 11/13/08 <http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/women/equalpay/EqualPaybyOccupation.cfm>.Helen Wilkinson: Blair has failed the cause of equal pay for women
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/helen-wilkinson-blair-has-failed-the-cause-of-equal-pay-for-women-467926.html- women 30 years after the Equal Pay Act, there still is a 17.1 pay gap between men and women (JH)
- In 2004, the public sector pay gap was 10.1 for full time work pay. (KN)
- The private sector was 23.1 (JH)
- It will take more than 80 years to fill this pay gap between men and women. (KN)
- In Norway Korita Bekkemellem, they are threatening to close down companies unless 40% of women are recruited to their boards within the next 2 years. (JH)
- State-owned companies already have put 45% of women on their board. (KN)
- Women suffer economically when they become mothers (JH)
- IN 2004, there was a part time pay gap, where men worked full time, but women worked part time. This will take 140 years to close the gap. (KN)
- People don't acknowledge that women a "second shift" at home that men don't do and they don't get payed for it. (JH)
- In order to have a good economy, we need equality for men and women at work. (KN)
wilkinson, helen. "Helen Wilkinson: Blair has failed the cause of equal pay for women." The Independent 27 02 2006. the independent commentator. 11/14/08 <http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/helen-wilkinson-blair-has-failed-the-cause-of-equal-pay-for-women-467926.html>.Fact Sheet: How Equal Pay Helps Men
- Pay discrimination not only effects women, but their husbands and families as well. (JH)
- More mothers participated in the paid work force than women without children. (KN)
- 60% of mothers with young children are in the workforce. (JH)
- African American women are hard hit only 65% say they earn half or more of their family’s income(KN)
- Nearly four in 10 African American women said they didn’t have equal pay.(JH)
- Men have another battle for equal pay, get lower pay because of discrimination against women. (KN)
- Men in jobs usually or predominantly held by women, such as sales, service and clerical positions, for example, are also victims of pay bias.(JH)
- In Iowa, wage adjustments for affected workers averaged about $3,500, men were 41 percent of the beneficiaries.(KN)
- would raise women's wages by 13 percent and men's wages by 1 percent. (JH) ----
Fact Sheet: How Equal Pay Helps Men. america's union movement. 11/14/08 <http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/women/equalpay/FactSheetHowEqualPayHelpsMen.cfm>.Billitteri, Thomas J. "Gender Pay Gap." CQ Researcher 18.11 (2008): 241-264. CQ Researcher Online. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 14 Nov. 2008 <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2008031400>.
For Women in United States, Equal pay is still out of reach. 10/22/07 The National Network for Women Employment. 11/14/08 [[http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.php?sessionid=ecc35d576a38ae0cd3a776c12bc1bc70&Grd=Sec&sourcetype=Professional&lastname=&firstname=&title=&city=&publisher=©right|http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.php?sessionid=ecc35d576a38ae0cd3a776c12bc1bc70&Grd=Sec&sourcetype=Professional&lastname=&firstname=&title=&city=&publisher=©right=]].
Equal Pay: Women Like Men, Only Cheaper
- women only made 77 cents of every dollar that men made(jh)
- african american made only 63 cents and latinas 52 cents of a dollar that white white men get(jh)
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2008/04/equal-pay-women-like-men-only-cheaper.htmlEqual Pay: Women Like Men, Only Cheaper. 4/18/08 Tennessee Guerilla Women. 11/22/08 <Equal Pay: Women Like Men, Only Cheaper>.
State lawmakers urge greater efforts so men, women get equal payWednesday, April 09, 2008By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau
- when women work full time they earn about 59 cents to a mans dollars in 1963(jh)
- in 2006 women only made 77cents to a mans dollar working full time (jh)
- 18 cents progress in 40 years(jh)
- the pay shortage hurts not only them but their families too(jh)
- a female high school graduate earns 700,00 less than a male of the same status (jh)
- a female college graduate earns 1.2 million less than a male of the same status(jh)
- a female that earns a professional or graduate school degree earns 2 million less(jh)
- they say the pay gap is because women take more time off to have kids when men work that whole time.(jh)
http://www.pittsburgpostgazette.com/pg/08100/871643-178.stmWimbledon to Pay Equal Prize Money to Men, Women for First Time
Thursday, February 22, 2007- lasts years wimbledon games proze for the male was 1.170 million dollars and the womens was 1.117 million dollars(jh)
- this year was the firdt year that they were paid the same prize money.(jh)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253678,00.htmlWimbledon to Pay Equal Prize Money to Men, Women for First Time. Thursday, February 22, 2007 11/17/08 <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253678,00.html>.
It's Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay
- when were paid only 74 cents per dollars that was 26 dollars less for groceries, housing and child care(jh)
- when they earn less they have less pensions than men.(jh)
- 1994 women private-pension were 3,000 compared to 7,300(jh)
- companys have realized that the reason that the pay gap has closed because mens pay has falllen not womens pay rising(jh)
- for women lawyer weekly pay is 300 dollars less than mens attorneys(jh)
- doctors 500 dollars less than men(jh)
- women nures who are more domnate than men earn 30 dollars less than male nurses(jh)
- women profeesors pay is $170 less than men(jh)
- women teachers $ 70 less weekly than men(jh)
http://www.networkwomen.com/equalpay.htmlIt's Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay. Nteworking. 11/17/08 <http://www.networkwomen.com/equalpay.html>.
The Wage Gpa: A History of pay inequity and the Equal Pay Act
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html
- Because of large amount of American women taking jobs in war industries during WW2 the National War Labor Board urged employers in 1942 to make voluntarily adjustments which equalize wage or salary paid to females with the rates payed to males for comparable quality and quantity of work on same or similar operations- CH
- Employers failed to follow this "voluntary" request and at wars end most women were pushed out of their new jobs to make room for returning veterans-CH
- Until early 1960 newspapers published separate job listings for men and women and jobs were categorized according to gender-CH
- Higher level jobs listed almost exclusively under male listings-CH
- Wasn't until passage of Equal Pay Act on June 10 1963 that it became illegal to pay women lower rates for same job strictly on basis of gender-CH
- This act wasn't effective till June 11 1964-CH
- Demonstrable difference in seniority merit quality or quantity of work or other considerations could still merit different pay between men and women-CH
- Since 1963 when Equal Pay Act was signed closing of the wage gap between men and women has been a rate of about half a penny a year-CH
- In 1963 women earned 59% of wages men earned -CH
- In 2005 women earned 81% of men's wages an improvement of about half a penny per dollar earned every year-CH
Brunner, Borgna. The Wage Gap. infoplease. 11/17/08 <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html>.Unequal pay leaves women £369,000 worse off * Women working full time will be paid £369,000 less than their male counterparts over their lifetime(jh)
- Men are now paid 17.1% more than women for full-time work(jh)
- part-time wages is 36.6%, up from 35.8% in 2007(jh)
- The disparity would be enough to pay for 31 years of childcare or 22 new cars,to pay off the average student debt 18 times over.(jh)
- women in the Government Equalities Office are paid 4% more than men.(jh)
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/15/pay-equality-women-money\addley, ramesh, Esther, Randeep. Unequal pay leaves women$369,000 worse off. nov.15,2008 guardian.co.uk. 11/17/08 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/15/pay-equality-women-money>.
Growing pay gap between men and women prompts demands for audits
- In the private sector the pay gap is 21.7 per cent while in the public sector it is 13.8 per cent.(jh)
- women going into full-time work – an increase of 96,000 or 1.4 per cent compared with an increase of 17,000 or 0.2 per cent for men.(jh)
- Women make up 39 per cent of the full-time workforce.(jh)
- The gap in the median hourly rate for full-time workers widened from 12.5 per cent to 12.8 per cent.(jh)
- gap for the mean, or average, hourly rate rose from 17 per cent to 17.1 per cent.(jh)
- more women may find themselves as the sole or main income earner.(jh)
- important than ever that they are not underpaid(jh)
- tax returns of 146,000 people, also found big differences between overtime pay and bonus and commission pay for men and women(jh)
- overtime pay for men was £28 per week compared with £10 for women and pay made up of commissions(jh)
- bonuses and/or incentives was £13 per week for men and £5 for women(jh)
- gross median weekly pay for men rose in the year to April by 4.6 per cent for men to £521(jh)
- an annual rate of £27,500 – and by 4.4 per cent for women to £412 – an annual rate of £21,400(jh)
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/support_services/article5159015.eceBuckley, Christine . Growing pay gap between men and women prompts demands for audits. November 15, 2008 times online. 11/17/08 <http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/support_services/article5159015.ece>.
Ranks of women workers grow: Par survey but number of females in senior roles falls off, syudy finds
- Women comprise 36.4% of the cable workforce, a slight increase from 2007’s 35.8%(jh)
- Female staffers comprise 36.6% of all managers and professionals, close to last year’s 35.8% total(jh)
- Women comprise 35.4% of all middle managers and professionals, compared to 2007’s 37.9%, (jh)
- Women now comprise 22.8% of all senior executives, down from 27.7% only 12 months ago(jh)
*Women as a percentage of senior executives/operators
Women as a percentage of senior executives/programmers
Women of color — % of all employees/operators
Women of color — % of all employees/programmers
% companies with good pay equity policies/operators
% companies with good pay equity policies/programmers
Career planning and retention for midlevel managers/operators
Career planning and retention for midlevel managers/programmers
Flex time/operators
Flex time/programmers
Telecommuting/operators
Telecommuting/programmers**
- operators are striving to have 25% of top managers be female(jh)
- goals call for 45% of the senior-executive workforce at programmers to be comprised of women(jh)
- Only 12.6% of small company technology employees are women, compared to 15.1% overall.(jh)
- IT engineer and project director level as only 16.5% are women, compared to 27.9% in the overall industry,(jh)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6615153.html?desc=topstoryK.c.. "Ranks of Women Workers Grow." multichannel news multichannel. multichannel news. 11/17/08 <http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6615153.html?desc=topstory>.
When it comes to equal pay for women, Barack is bam,bam, thank you,mam
- Obama declared that "Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work." and added "I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons."(jh)
- Obama's male legislative staffers earn an average of $ 54,397 while his female staffers average $ 45,152(jh)
- Obama's five best-paid advisers, only one is a woman and, among his top 20, only seven are women.(jh)
- Obama, John McCain's female staff average $ 55,878 while his male staff average $ 53,936.(jh)
- McCain's highest-paid aides, with three of the top five and 13 of his highest-paid 20 employees.(jh)
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/garnica/080916garnica, gabriel. when it comes to equal pay for women,Brack is bam, bam, thank you,mam. sept 16,2008 Renew America. 11/17/08 <http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/garnica/080916>.
Do Women and Men Earn Equal Pay in 2007?